Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

Researchers show that even large silverback gorillas spend a substantial amount of time in trees Bwindi mountain gorillas in ...

Even the largest gorillas are arboreal: Contrary to traditional assumptions, arboreality in gorillas is not driven solely by the frequency of fruit eating or limited by their large body size, but ...

Our early human ancestor was capable of running, if slowly, a new study finds. By Franz Lidz More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still ...

LUCY, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, was found in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974. Her 40 per cent-complete skeleton, dating back a whopping 3.2 million years, have provided breakthrough ...

Lucy's Legacy: 50 Years On, The Fossil That Changed Our Understanding Of Human Evolution ... Lucy was merely “the ape that stood up,” meaning she walked with bent hips and bent knees.

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. ... evolutionarily halfway between our ape ancestors and us. But Lucy is just one of many famous hominin fossils.

What ‘Lucy,’ One of the World’s Most Important Fossils, Has Taught Scientists in the 50 Years Since Her Discovery The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about ...

Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking, human-like creatures (collectively known as hominins) beyond 3 million years for the first time.

Lucy quickly became a celebrity of the fossil record. The search for human ancestors. ... or an ape more humanlike than had been found by anyone,” recalled Johanson, ...

Lucy quickly became a celebrity of the fossil record. ... or an ape more humanlike than had been found by anyone,” recalled Johanson, now a paleoanthropologist at Arizona State University. ...

At 3.2 million years old, Lucy and her kind lived equidistant in time from our ape ancestors and contemporary humans. Advertisement "She's our touchstone," Jeremy DeSilva , a paleoanthropologist ...